Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] kvm: x86: Rename KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD to KVM_DEBUGREG_NEED_RELOAD | From | Nadav Amit <> | Date | Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:54:07 -0700 |
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> On Apr 25, 2020, at 1:07 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 16/04/20 12:15, Xiaoyao Li wrote: >> To make it more clear that the flag means DRn (except DR7) need to be >> reloaded before vm entry. >> >> Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com> > > I wonder if KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD is needed at all. It should be easy to > write selftests for it, using the testcase in commit message > 172b2386ed16 and the information in commit ae561edeb421.
I must be missing something, since I did not follow this thread and other KVM changes very closely.
Yet, for the record, I added KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD due to real experienced issues that I had while running Intel’s fuzzing tests on KVM: IIRC, the DRs were not reloaded after an INIT event that clears them.
Personally, I would prefer that a test for that, if added, would be added to KVM-unit-tests, based on Liran’s INIT test. This would allow to confirm bare-metal behaves as the VM.
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